Quotes About Impact

What you have in Scotland is an unpredictability with surfaces - and I've already said you don't get good games on artificial turf - and that can affect performances and results.

I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

The relatively unpredictable flow of funds to humanitarian organizations, and the bureaucratic strings often attached to them, can have a highly negative impact on an organization's ability to plan and execute programmes effectively. We need to be able to rely on predictable income flows to plan sustainable programmes.

The 2003 war in Iraq may be considered the greatest error in American policy since the Civil War. Its ramifications are earth-shattering and will impact us and our safety for generations. It may completely unravel the entire Middle East forever.

When I was discovered, everything happened like dominos. I don't know how to talk about it now because it's too mindblowing. It's so unreal, and yet it's real.

You know a movie is good when things that are unreal have gotten into your head, and now your day is not the same.

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

One cabbie chastened me by saying that the fashion industry was doing harm to young people, who are trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal. It prompted me to make body image and diversity key issues on 'The Business of Fashion.'

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

For me personally, I feel that a film that doesn't end with a happy ending has a far bigger reach. It lingers on far more. Unrequited love stories have much more impact on the audiences. If 'Romeo and Juliet' had been happily married and had kids and dogs, I don't think it would have been a classic.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.

My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If I'd known I was writing for kids, I might actually have spelt things out a bit more, and that would probably have killed the appeal.

I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society.

The unspoken thing, the elephant in the room, is the war against terrorism, it's tainting everything.

Underneath it, in 'An Inconvenient Truth', we talked a lot about the unspoken decisions that people make in their heads.

Shaquille O'Neal was probably my favorite athlete growing up. I loved how dominant and unstoppable he was, but also his charisma off the court. He was someone I gravitated toward.

Merlin is the unsung hero who is often responsible for things turning out positively, but rarely gets credit for that.

The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.

At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that teachers are unsung heroes.

I never mean to make a headline where it's like, 'Chris Long unsure.' I never try to make it sound like I'm under the impression it matters either way if I play or anybody cares.